The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-02-24
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
DOmestIc News

Domestic News
Much damage was done at Philadelphia,
Pa, on the 18th, by an electrical storm,
filling inlets, sewers and cellars with a
food of water.
A party of Italian laborers at Ware,
Mass, resisted officers endeavoring to make
an arrest, armed with clubs. pistols &c..
and In the struggle the officers fired and
one Italian was killed.
1t is learned that Mrs Horace Fairbanks,
VT, is among the lost. She was to have
been on the train and it il stated that her
cloak and watch have been found.
1t is expected that a call for slo,Voo,OO 3
per cent bonds will soon be issued and that
the entire per cent loan, of which there is
now about s4U,GOO.WO,tNO outstanding. will
be entirely extinguished before Julyl.
Circulars have been issued at the navy
department giving specifications and pre-
scribing tests for the gun forgings and
steel plates for the armament Of monitors
and new steel cruisers The circulars have
been sent to all prominent steel manufac-
turers in the country.
The President has allowed the act appro-
priating 100000 year to provide arms and
equipments for the militia to become a law
without his signature. The constitutional
limitation Of ten days within which he
should have acted on the bill expired on
Saturday. His failure to sign the bill is re-
garded as an oversight, as he was not
known to object to any of its provisions.
The remains of Gen. Hazen. late chief sig
nal officer, were ON Tuesday transferred
from Oak Hill cemetery to the national
cemetery at Arlington. The re-interment
was strictly Of private nature. Rev. DIR.
Leonard, Of st. Johns church ofiiciated.
wishes Of Mrs. Hazen, who thought there
was no more fitting final resting place for
Gen. Hazen than with the rank and file OF
the army at the national cemetery at Ar
lingtOn.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York city has
vetoed an ordinance for streets booths
where food may be supplied to the poor at
one cent an article He says there are
5000 persons in the city who depend upon
chance for their daily bread. and in his
view such agencies as free soup kitchens
and cheap food booths would in his opinion
increase idieness and poverty. He is also
informed that the charitable organizations
of the city are sufficient to cope with the
existing distress.
Heirs of Mrs. A. T. Stewart have brought
suit to oust Judge Henry Hilton from his
executorship, charging him with fraud
The complaint sets out the will and codicil
connected with it, giving Mr.. Hilton q
large slice of the residuary estate after Ger.
tain requests have been provided for, and
,11 hot ssan Nt,..ca v.npfio of GatS
alleged codicils which purport to devise te
said Henry Hilton in trust an undivided
half of said real estate or to vest in him
any trust were obtained from Cornelia M
Stewart by undue influence and fraud
At New York the business Of the steam
ship and railroad companies on the piers
along the river front has assumed its nor
NAL condition, and freight is being moved
as Systematically as before the big strike
Many Of the old hands have got back t.
work, and the Italians who took the places
OF the strikers are now accustomed to the
work, and the agents say they are as good
as the old hands. except that they do no,
understand the language. The men now
acknowledge they were badly beaten, and
some of them are severe in their denuncia
tion of the action of their leaders
!! President Cleveland vetoed the bill apprC
priating $4,000 for the distribution of seed.
in Texas. In the course Of his message he
preparation in the constitution and do not
believe that the power and duty Of the gen
eral government ought to be extended te
the relief Of individual suffering, which /.
in no manner properly related to the public
service or benefit. A prevalent tendency t.
| and duty should. think, be steadfasrly re
sisted to the end that the lesson should bt
constantly enforced that though the people
support the government the government
| should not support the people.
1t is believed at Washington that til,
Anti Mormon bin that has passed Congress
will become law. A dispatch says tha
President Cleveland has indeed been il
earnest in the prosecution OF the Mormon
cases as any one, and retains in office gov
e-nor who has been more vigorous than any
of his predecessors in endeavoring to re
press polygamy. The approval of this Law
! undoubtedly will be the turning point il
tue fortunes of Utah. The supporters 0
| the bill predict that the result will be tha
| there will he a large immigration into tn
| territory next spring, aud that from thi
| time forward the control of affairs ther,
! will rapidly pass from the hands OF the cor
| ruptiOn hierarchy into the hands of thu
| Gentiles.
The sensational disappearance of book
keeper Schofield, at Winnipeg, Saturda,
night, the supposition that he was murder
ed and the arrest Of man named Mile
for the deed or knowledge Of it, had ~
quel Monday in the capture of Schohel,
himself at Minneapolis Monday, wearing
| lumberman's suit over his customary gar
ments. Schofield was taken in ON a tele
gram from Winnipeg on the theory that b
was flying assassin, but he convinced tn
police that he was the missing man, an,
had gone away on account of domesti
| trouble, and to cover his flight he told thi
! story: II went to the office Saturda,
/ evening and slaughtered two chickens, til
blood Of which scattered over the furniture
afterward took them to the river ant
dropped them through the ice." He ha,
with him xo,0l5, but said it was all his owl
but $500, which belonged to the firm EN-
ploying him. He was released from custody
and dropped his lumberman's suit, and dis
appeared. Later q telegram came fror
Winnipeg asking his detention until a
officer could arrive, doubts being enter
tanned there about his being Schofield, bu
be had shown the officers letters an
papers, marks upon under clothing, a.,
that proved him to be the man he said b
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